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V. A P^ort Account of the different IQnds of Ipe* 
cacuanha, by Dr. Doughky Med. (Pexin. Extr. 
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I beg Leave to take up a fmall Part of this honou- 
rable Society’s Time, in laying before them (bmc 
Specimens of that celebrated vomiting Root, whe- 
ther truly, or failly called Ipecacuanha, which I keep 
in my Colledion of the Materia Medica ; together 
with a few Obfervations concerning their outward 
Appearance, by the Help of which the feveral Kinds 
thereof may be diftinguiflied from one another ; and 
an Account of what I have hitherto been able to 
learn concerning the true Places of their Growth. 
The firft: general Division of thefe Roots mull be, 
as has been already hinted, into true and falle ; and 
each of thefe may be again lubdivided into feveral 
Species, the diftindf ive Note of which is principally 
taken from their Colour. 
Of the true Ipecacuanha I have four Kinds, Black, 
Brown, Grey, and White ; but I cannot pretend to 
determine whether they belong to different Plants, 
or are only Varieties of the lame Plant owing to the 
Soil in which they grow, as is affirmed by our W'or- 
thy and learned Prefident Sir Hans Sloane Baronet. 
And as thefe Roots are never imported to us entire, it 
is impoffible to give any certain Defeription of them 
in that State. 
However, by comparing the feveral dried Pieces 
as we have them, we may very probably conjedure 
that 
